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"On this day in 1940 Adolf Hitler orders his generals to begin planning for an amphibious invasion of Great Britain. Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelwe) is scheduled to begin in September after the RAF has been swept from the skies over southern England"  
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"Inside the officers' quarters at Fort George"  
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"On this day in 1914 the U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes a 23-plane "Aviation Section." It's the forerunner of the USAF. The unit's budget for the coming year will be $250000 less than the cost of a single AIM-9 Sidewinder missile today"  
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"On this day in 1940 British news cameras atop the Cliffs of Dover capture dramatic footage of a Luftwaffe strike on shipping in the English Channel. The raids known as the 'Kanalkampf' mark the beginning of the Battle of Britain"  
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"On this day in 1945 Truman Stalin and Churchill assemble near Berlin at Potsdam Germany to map out the post-war world. Behind the scenes relations between the Western Allies and Moscow are beginning to unravel"  
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"On this day in 1849 the Austrian army drops bombs on the city of Venice using unmanned balloons. It's history's first air raid (and arguably the first drone strike too)"  
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"In the movie 'Jaws' Quint gets the date of the USS Indianapolis sinking wrong. He said it happened "June the 29th 1945" but it was actually July XX. (I bet he never really saw a shark eat a rocking chair either)"  
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"Today in 1863 the 54th Massachusetts Infantry storms the walls of Fort Wagner near Charleston South Carolina. Despite failing to capture the objective the unit's heroism proves the mettle of African-American troops paving the way for the raising of even more Black regiments"  
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"On this day in 1936 nationalist elements within Spain's military rise up to overthrow the country's left-of-centre coalition government. The coup triggers a three-year civil war that leaves hundreds of thousands dead"  
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"Today in 1755 colonial militia and British redcoats under the command of Edward Braddock are ambushed by French and Indigenous forces at Monongahela near present-day Pittsburgh. Amid the chaos a 23-year-old colonial officer named George Washington manages to distinguish himself"  
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"On this day in 1918 XX German divisions slam into the Allied lines along the Marne. It's the Kaiser's last major offensive on the Western Front in WW1. British Empire French & American forces soon recover and mount a counter attack that brings the war to an end XXX days later"  
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"On this day in 1945 the United States detonates history's first nuclear weapon. The top secret test is carried out in the New Mexico desert under the codename 'Trinity.' Just XX days later Hiroshima is destroyed by the first of two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan"  
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"On this day in 1969 long-standing tensions between the nations of El Salvador and Honduras boil over during a hotly contested World Cup qualifying match. The resulting Football War (or Soccer War) produces 3000 casualties in just a few days. See:"  
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"On this day in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the captain of the British warship HMS Bellerophon off Rochefort France. "I am come to throw myself on the protection of your Prince and your laws" he declares. It has been XX days since his army was crushed at Waterloo"  
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"On this day in 1945 the American cruiser USS Indianapolis sails from San Francisco for the tiny South Pacific island of Tinian. Secured in the warship's hold is a top secret cargo: the disassembled components of the Hiroshima bomb codenamed "Little Boy.""  
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"Today in 1917 a horrifying new chemical weapon is released on the Western Front at Ypres. A blistering agent known as 'bis (2-chloroethyl) sulfide' it gives off a scent similar to horseradish. Soldiers will call it by another name: 'Mustard Gas' See"  
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"Today in 1863 a 34-year-old college professor from Maine named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain helps fend off repeated Confederate attacks against the left flank of the Union line at Gettysburg. The fight for Little Round Top will become one of the battle's most celebrated moments. (Here's where everyone replies with that Jeff Daniels' 'Bayonets' gif)"  
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"On this day in 1870 France declares war on Prussia. The armies of Emperor Napoleon III are woefully unprepared for the contest that lies ahead and suffer a series of humiliating defeats. Within six months German troops are marching through the streets of Paris"  
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"On this night in 1918 Bolshevik troops shoot and bayonet Russia's royal family in a Yekaterinburg cellar. A communist party newspaper cynically proclaims the Romanovs were ". shot without Bourgeois formalities but in accordance with our new democratic principles.""  
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"On this day in 1944 two munition ships explode in Port Chicago California killing XXX. Most of the dead are African American sailors and dock workers. A month later XX survivors will be charged with mutiny after refusing to work until more safety precautions are implemented"  
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"In the movie 'Jaws' Quint gets the date of the USS Indianapolis sinking wrong. He said it happened "June the 29th 1945" but it was actually July XX. Off by more than a month. (I bet he never really saw a shark eat a rocking chair either)"  
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"We didn't let the brutal heat deter us from visiting one of our favourite historic sites: Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake Canada. @FortGeorgeNHS"  
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"Many of the guns of Fort George are trained on Fort Niagara (seen here) just across the river in Youngstown New York. The painting below is a view of Fort George from the American side"  
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"On this day in 2014 a surface-to-air missile fired from a Russian launcher destroys a Malaysia Airlines Boeing XXX over Ukraine. The aircraft which is flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur is carrying XXX passengers and XX crew. All are killed"  
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"On this day in 1917 an Arab army led by Auda ibu Tayi and Sherif Nasir takes the Red Sea Port of Aqaba from the Ottomans following a 600-mile trek across the desert. Taking part in the expedition is a British army officer by the name of T.E. Lawrence"  
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"On this day in 1545 Tudor England loses its state-of-the-art warship the Mary Rose in action against a French invasion fleet off the Isle of Wight. The vessel will spend XXX years on bottom before being recovered in 1982"  
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"Today in 1778 France joins America's fight for independence by declaring war on Great Britain. In addition to sending troops to North America the French battle the British on land and sea in the West Indies and India. Plans are even drawn up for an invasion of England itself"  
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"Built in the 1790s Fort George was one link in a chain of outposts along the Great Lakes guarding Britain's colony of Upper Canada. It was on the frontlines during the War of 1812"  
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"A parting shot to wrap up the pics of our visit to Fort George"  
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"Today in 1789 a mob of XXX revolutionaries and a regiment of elite French Guards storm the Bastille in Paris. Erected in the 14th century the fortress-turned-prison had come to symbolize the oppression of the Ancien Rgime among many in France. #BastilleDay"  
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"On this day in 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of 'Mein Kampf.' In it the future German Fhrer tells his life story deals in toxic racial hatreds and lays out his plans for what will become the Third Reich. Eventually more than XX million copies will be printed"  
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